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We've got everything with this one.  We've got knights.  We've got pirates.  We've got slavery.  It's a very problematic time period as I'm sure you're well aware of by now.  Come listen to the tale of a man who was a victim/perpetrator of it all, the son of a lowly barber-surgeon... Miguel de Cervantes!

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I know you've probably been thinking, "Hey, I've got good excuses not to do that thing I've always wanted to do.  Like burning down a cop station, or writing a book."  Well we're here to tell you that your excuses are bullshit!  Here is the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the author of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", who wrote the ENTIRE novel with the use of one eyelid due to his very rare locked-in syndrome.  If he can do it, so can you!

Now go out there and give your father a reason to talk about you at work again.

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TW: Dead Kids, Incest;

God these kids are the fucking worst.  Are we ready to talk about their worst attributes and best personalities?  Alright then, let's go over the rest of Mary Shelley's accomplished (and sometime infamous) works.  Namely, "Frankenstein", "Mathilda", and "The Last Man".  Here we fuckin' gooooo....

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TW: Suicide;

Do me a favor: think about how refined and elegant you'd expect an accomplished author (such as Mary Shelley) and a world-renowned poet (such as Percy Shelley) would be.

Good.

Now set those expectations WAAAAAY fucking lower.  These kids are some of the most annoying we've covered, and by God are they proud of that fact.  I will say it's impressive how no matter what technology we've invented, what accomplishments we've conquered as a species, there will always be those people you know who get offended when you ask them to pay you back what they owe.  Anyway, it's Mary Shelley!

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TW: Rape, Suicide;

It's good to be back.  And with a recording device that so far hasn't fucked us!  This season we're kicking it off with the Queen of Feminism herself, Mary Wollstonecraft!

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Alright look, we DID have a 10th author for our season finale but due to our information being readily available, we are gonna have to veto this guy for now.  HOWEVER, come listen to Jordan read to Caleb the first chapter of infamous Harry Potter fanfic "My Immortal" for now while we get some shit figured out.  See y'all in January!

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TW: Pedophilia (EXCEPT THERE'S NO EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST HE DID ANY SUCH THING BUT WE CERTAINLY DID DISCUSS IT), Suicide;

Who wants to get "Peter Pan" ruined for them?  Well jump on in and let's take a nosedive into the strangely upsetting childhood of J.M. Barrie, which leads us to the upsetting adulthood of J.M. Barrie!

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TW: Dead Kids;

Hoo boy here we go with the racism again.  Join us for our discussion on Flannery O'Connor's Souther Gothic masterpiece "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", along with her novel "The Violent Bear It Away", and the rest of her work during her ever-declining health.  How fun!

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With the need for goth girlfriends on the rise, we can bring you at least one of those things: the advent of the Southern Gothic.  While Flannery O'Connor was not the first to write in this style, she was definitely the greatest influence-- and possibly the greatest writer to contribute to-- the Southern Gothic genre.  Come listen to us discuss the beginning of her career with her novel "Wise Blood", before going on to absolutely demolish the expectations of what women "should" write.

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TW: Incest, Rape;

He's angry, he's sick of the hypocrisy, and he's not afraid to shove his middle finger in your face and tell you so.  Come listen to us discuss the man who helped light the powder keg of the Civil Rights movement and his critically-acclaimed novel "Invisible Man", Ralph Ellison!